Western festivals in disfavor of moral brigade
I distinctly remember during my school and college days there was no particular fetish for “western” festivals like valentines day, mothers day, fathers day, friendship day etc. With the growth of the global economy and with more and more disposal income, marketing whiz kids came out with strategies to tap into this income. If you have observed, it is only in the last five to six years that all these “days” are being talked off and “celebrated”. Indian culture per se is family oriented, though with the pressures of modern day living some of us may not really understand the term family support. All you need to do is be a first generation migrant to the west to truly understand the meaning of “family support”. Earlier we used to have joint families – now we have nuclear families, so much so that children have started staying away from their parents or putting their parents in old age homes. The popular family slogan of “hum do hamare do” probably does not hold good any more as couples th...